How to Reclaim Your Time Off with Fab Giovanetti
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As the lines between rest and work become increasingly blurred and we're constantly encouraged to monetise our hobbies, how can we carve time that's just for us, and crucially, learn to relax and actually enjoy it? The brilliant Fab Giovanetti, author of Reclaim Your Time Off: The Three-Step Solution to Overworking, walks us through her three step solution to making your time belong to you again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to nobody panic with me Stevie and my good |
| 0:16.5 | pal what's your name my name is tessa Coates is it yes and today we're not alone because we are doing an episode about how to reclaim |
| 0:27.4 | your time off and as two people look I don't want to just speak for myself though I do want to just speak for myself I don't |
| 0:33.9 | to speak for both of us but I'm terrible at doing it and I felt like we need to have an expert |
| 0:38.0 | coming in so we've got expert of reclaiming time off and author of the book Reclaim your time off the three-step |
| 0:46.3 | solution to overworking fab-gia vanetti welcome to nobody panic fab thank you so much for having me very excited to be here. |
| 0:54.6 | We thought we'd start by just sort of I want to ask you tessa. |
| 0:58.4 | Do you feel like you use your time off in a good way? I don't, that's me done, do you? |
| 1:06.6 | No, and I think that is not at all unique to the modern, the modern working person or non-working work like I just think it's such a modern thing that we |
| 1:17.4 | The any moment anytime I have any time off I'm just thinking of what I should be doing with it |
| 1:22.0 | And I think increase especially if you're |
| 1:24.3 | freelance and therefore and you might think that being freelance means just like |
| 1:28.1 | you're all you can holiday anytime you want and you can holiday time anytime won't be |
| 1:32.3 | you're always thinking I should be at work. |
| 1:34.0 | So you never really enjoy your time off because you're just thinking what you should be doing |
| 1:38.6 | with it and then you're just constantly thinking about the stuff you have to get done |
| 1:42.0 | as I've never really truly ever been like |
| 1:43.6 | oh and now it the only times I ever have it are on a plane or on a train which is why I like to travel so much because you're like I |
| 1:49.7 | literally cannot be doing anything else I think it's why people like to watch |
| 1:53.0 | movies on a plane because you're like I literally could not be doing anything else. |
| 1:56.9 | I just have to sit back and be served on the clouds. No one can get to me. |
| 2:01.2 | No one can get to me. This is my totally guilt-free time but apart from that |
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